Monthly Archive for April, 2008

GearCrave Giveaway: Design by Hümans Edition

Published
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John
on April 23, 2008
in Design by Humans, contests and t-shirts
. 1 Comment

Seems like everyone loves Design by Hümans these days. Now, if you’re anything like me, you probably enjoy taking steps to always hurt the one you love (the one you shouldn’t hurt at all). So how can you stick it to DBH where it really hurts?

By taking their shirts for free!

… Legally!


GearCrave, billed as “the ultimate buyers guide for men,” can help you do just that with their GearCrave Giveaway!

GearCrave’s latest giveaway, in which they will award a total of 25 Design by Hüman t-shirts to a total of 25 GearCrave readers, began April 21st and will continue until 11:59pm on Sunday, April 27th, at which point it will cease. How can you win a DBH shirt of your very own? Follow these three easy steps:

  • Sign up for GearCrave’s newsletter!
  • Scour DBH’s store and find the shirt for you!
  • Comment on GearCrave’s contest page along with a link to the shirt you want to win! Legally!

Some of GearCrave’s 25 winners have already been announced, but that doesn’t mean you’re ineligible for some sweet free t-shirt action. Sign up! Scour! Comment! Do not delay.

Link: [GearCrave Giveaway: 25 Free T-Shirts from Design By Hümans]

When Bounty Hunters Thrash—MetroidMetal.com

Published
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John
on April 22, 2008
in t-shirts
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Friends, let’s get down to business.

Item 1: There has been far too little science fiction featured on this blog as of late.

Item 2: The same applies to video games.

Item 3: Ditto for metal. Rock!

It is time to rectify all of these things in one fell swoop.


Samus with Guitar by Andrew Wilson at MetroidMetal.com: $18.99

Those of you unfamiliar with the world of video game music remixing, I highly suggest that you examine your life and try to determine where it went so horribly wrong. The fastest way to redeem yourselves would be to go to MetroidMetal.com’s song page and immediately download “The Theme” under the Metroid section. I predict that you will soon wish you had longer hair once you begin to headbang improperly.

MetroidMetal.com is billed as a community site celebrating the Metroid franchise’s music library, and I must admit that I am not firmly entrenched in it. I don’t know much about the brains behind this sonic outfit other than his online handle: Stemage. What matters, though, is that A) he rocks my block off and B) he understands the fearsome power of combining the prototypical staple of rock with a celebrated video game icon.1

There’s more shirts to see at MetroidMetal.com’s online Printfection store—featuring designs by the aforementioned Andrew Wilson as well as Lady Phendrana—but really, you just can’t beat Samus with an electric guitar.2 For, as we all well know, metal is the ultimate power-up.3 Can you imagine the stage show that Chozo technology could produce?

Link: [Samus with Guitar at MetroidMetal.com]
Expensiveness: $18.99

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1This formula, of course, is not restricted to video games.
2I think I might have belabored this point.
3Rrgh, yes, this is cheesy, I know it is cheesy!

This Week in T-Shirts, April 13-19

Published
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Fantastic Blognanza!
on April 20, 2008
in This Week in T-Shirts
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Sale-ing Guys ‘n’ Gals

Newly Met Guys ‘n’ Gals

  • Modern Amusement: a creative collective from the Brits specializing in wearable art, as they put it.
  • Maiden-Art: if you don’t have enough wearable art, you can also go here. “We Are All Industrial Humanoids” is the series currently on sale.
  • Subversive: producing shirt series seasonally, the first of which is inspired by flora & fauna.
  • Buy-Tees: help them spread the word about boycotting the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
  • Urban Humanity: dudes just launched on the 15th. Visit them before other people find out!
  • Skeledog: all designs feature a dog’s skeleton.

Familiar Guys ‘n’ Gals

Blogged Guys ‘n’ Gals

Mustache & Friends Sale!

Published
by
Joe
on April 19, 2008
in new releases, on sale and t-shirts
. 1 Comment

Remember my recent review of Mustache & Friends? Well, if that wasn’t enough to convince you of their awesomeness, this should be:

Use coupon code ‘mfwoot’ on Sunday (4/20) for 20% off everything and a free buttonpack at Mustache & Friends!

Ahoy - Mustache & Friends
Ahoy NEW! at Mustache & Friends

Hurray! Thanks, M & F, for being all kinds of terrific! Check out their buttonpacks here.

Link: [Mustache & Friends]
Expensiveness: $20 - 20% = $16!
Should you hurry: Yup, only lasts through Sunday, 4/20!

NB: This discount applies to the mustachioed and un-mustachioed alike. No proof of facial hair necessary to receive discount. Coupon valid for lumberjacks, sailors, and professional facial hairers.

Blink and You’ll Miss It!

Published
by
Greg
on April 18, 2008
in Design by Humans, on sale and t-shirts
. 6 Comments

Gah! Gaaaaah!

Have you heard? There is a sale at Design By Hümans! You can get 25% off! That’s so many percents! To take advantage of this reduced price, you will need to use the coupon code: LUVDBH. Keep that code, memorize it, and treasure it forever.

Actually, forever is probably unnecessarily long, as the sale ends on midnight on Sunday1. So in fact, you have very little time to take advantage of this sale! There’s so little time that I didn’t even have the time to add a picture to the post. That’s how little time there is.

And if you’re in a generous mood, you can click on my DBH affiliate link to buy stuff. Or don’t. It’s up to you, really.


1 I assume this means the end of the day on Sunday, not the beginning. Ambiguous phrasing like this can cause all sorts of confusion, folks! For clarity, a good policy is to make deadlines occur at 11:59pm on some day—then there’s no confusion over which day midnight belongs to.

Owl Movement Moves Linearly

Published
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John
on April 18, 2008
in Owl Movement, new releases and t-shirts
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Always looking forward, the chaps at Owl Movement have unleashed their newest series of t-shirts into those warm, golden fields—better known as the disposable income market. With the series title “Lines and Diagrams,” this quartet does privilege patterns over portraits, but don’t let the name mislead you into picturing Cartesian planes and medians and statistical whatnots. Square roots.


Snakes Mistakes by Miss Lotion at Owl Movement: $20.00

My cache of patterned apparel has always been a bit low, and Miss Lotion’s offering seems like a fine item to rectify this deficiency. It reminds me of a lethargic fractal that decided to call it quits after a subdivision or two for a reason I can’t entirely justify.


Natural by Jean Spezial at Owl Movement: $20.00

At first, I thought I would point at this shirt—offered by Mr. Spezial, a man analogous to Mr. Floyd and Mr. Python—and make a clever little Escher comment and feel very educated, but I feel as though I shouldn’t for many reasons. What you should note are the design’s featured creatures: “Owls, Dinosaurs and Ninja Octopi”. Ninja octopi, mind you! This is a new evolutionary step for these familiar subjects of t-shirt design. (How long until we begin to see robot-zombie-pirate-octopi, I wonder?)

And don’t neglect Dog Zone or Birthday Surprise, neither! The latter reminds me of neither lines nor diagrams, but I am willing to overlook this egregious1 error for now.

Link: [Series 7—Lines and Diagrams at Owl Movement]
Expensiveness: $20.00

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1not really, i am kidding :-]

Sub Urban Riot Movies

Published
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Joe
on April 18, 2008
in Sub Urban Riot, art, film and t-shirts
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Sub Urban Riot, an indie t-shirt label, have uploaded a handful of interesting movies to their site, including Living Book:

While most directly an advertisement for Sub Urban Riot, Living Book is nevertheless my favorite of the bunch.

Link: [movies at Sub Urban Riot]